{"id":339585,"date":"2010-02-19T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/court-ryan-must-forfeit-all-of-state-pension"},"modified":"2010-02-19T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:16:29","slug":"court-ryan-must-forfeit-all-of-state-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339585","title":{"rendered":"Court: Ryan must forfeit all of state pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; The Illinois Supreme Court says former Gov. George Ryan must forfeit all of his state pension for crimes he committed as secretary of state and governor.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan is currently serving a 6 1\/2-year racketeering and fraud sentence. He had been hoping to salvage a $60,000-a-year pension, based on his years as a state lawmaker and lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan wasn&#8217;t convicted of committing any crimes when he held those offices.<\/p>\n<p>But the high court ruled 6-1 on Friday that he&#8217;s ineligible for any state pension.<\/p>\n<p>Before his conviction, Ryan had been due to draw a pension of more than $197,000.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there&#8217;s a new campaign to get Ryan out of prison. <span id=\"more-20457\"><\/span>Ryan&#8217;s wife and lawyer are asking President Barack Obama to grant the former governor clemency.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer said Ryan has already been punished: he&#8217;s broke and his wife has a life-threatening illness.<\/p>\n<p>Lura Lynn Ryan has terminal lung disease and is on oxygen 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Court: Ryan Must Forfeit All Of State Pension\" href=\"http:\/\/wbbm780.com\/content_page.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=5612981\"  rel='nofollow'>WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gEDx9dH0JjJq4ZYPvpPKDHFm6mY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gEDx9dH0JjJq4ZYPvpPKDHFm6mY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gEDx9dH0JjJq4ZYPvpPKDHFm6mY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gEDx9dH0JjJq4ZYPvpPKDHFm6mY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=NMk7vO4Xy9s:HfyGDlA_434:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=NMk7vO4Xy9s:HfyGDlA_434:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=NMk7vO4Xy9s:HfyGDlA_434:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=NMk7vO4Xy9s:HfyGDlA_434:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/NMk7vO4Xy9s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; The Illinois Supreme Court says former Gov. George Ryan must forfeit all of his state pension for crimes he committed as secretary of state and governor. Ryan is currently serving a 6 1\/2-year racketeering and fraud sentence. He had been hoping to salvage a $60,000-a-year pension, based on his years as a state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}